Read the Playk article on the re-release here: playak.com/article.php?sid=12752 .

The RPM is the boat that got me hooked on WW and taught me many things about the river. I love the boat, but honestly can't ever see owning one today. There are SO many more modern boats that offer SOOOO much more performance on the river. Even as a one boat quiver I can't see it. It is fun to paddle boats like the RPM from time to time just for laughs, but if I want to go throw cartwheels or the like there are probably over 50 different more modern boats that will do the job better.

What do you think? Will Dagger sell more RPM? Would you buy a new RPM when you can probably find a used one for much less?

I started in an old Prijon Taifun and then bough a Rainbow Reaction (because a guy from our club could get a good deal from Rainbow). The Reaction was a big banana, and I found it terrible to cross eddy lines in it.

When the RPM came out, I immediately bought one and loved it. It was so much easier to paddle and it could front surf on auto-pilot, so I had loads of fun in it.

However, soon after that, planing hulls became more popular, and my next boats were a Riot Hammer and a Wavesport X. I loved the way they behave on waves, but also when running whitewater I found those boats so much more predictable than any of my previous boats. Since those days, I have always put beginners in modern boats as well, even though many guys in my club said that one should start in a displacement hulled boat (probably because that's what they were used to themselves).

I would indeed not let people start in an RPM these days, and if I'd paddle one myself, it would be for nostalgic reasons only...

Suprisingly Dagger sold the Kingpin and G-force untill not long ago. Also oldtype playboats, but presumably were still bestsellers.